1848 in Canada

See also: 1847 in Canada, other events of 1848, 1849 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.

Events

• January 2 – Maple sugar is made in St. Anselme.
• January 15 – Wellington and Commissioners streets in Montreal are flooded.
• January 27 – Ploughing about Bathurst and Beckwith.
• March 4 – The so-called Great Ministry of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine begins.
• May 15 – MP's vote themselves 50 pounds each for 25 days.
• July 5 – Run on the Savings Bank, Montreal, followed by re-deposit.
• September 20 – Opening of the Jesuits' College, Montreal.
• First telegraph lines in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
• Responsible government established in Nova Scotia and the Canadas.

Births

• January 19 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, politician
• February 24 – Grant Allen, artist
• March 24 – Honoré Beaugrand, journalist
• April 14 – James Walker, jurist
• April 23 – George Clift King, Mayor of Calgary
• May 20 – Joseph-Aldéric Ouimet, politician
• July 18 – Hugh Graham, newspaper publisher
• November 24 – William Stevens Fielding, Premier of Nova Scotia

Deaths